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Posted: June 19 2006,19:41 QUOTE

I am trying to use Polish letters in DSL. ( &#380; &#378; &#263; &#324; &#261; &#347; &#322; &#281; ó ) It also seems they don't want to show up on this forum either, even though I typed them correctly on this windows box. (except for the correct ó )

At boot I type lang=pl because that's what it says to do. This doesn't seem to do much, except when I press the ALT-GR key and one of the letters, it shows a strange character, but not the one it is supposed to.

Here's the really strange part though. In Skype, when I type a message with the ALT-GR and a Polish letter, I get the correct Polish letter.

So far Skype seems to be the only program that I can type correctly in. Open office can display the letters fine, but I can't type them.

I had a play with xkeycaps but that didn't work for me.

It's almost as if the system knows it's supposed to be Polish, but can't input them, except as I said for Skype.

Surely I don't really have to get carried away and install Xfree86 do I?
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Posted: July 15 2006,17:12 QUOTE

Ok, well I got it sort of going with xkeycaps, but it said to add a line to the login script to make it permanant. Where is this login script it speaks of?
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Posted: July 15 2006,19:32 QUOTE

Depends on what kind of line... but I'm guessing in one of the ~/.bash* files.

Skype probably works because it uses the QT library.
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Posted: July 15 2006,21:42 QUOTE

Ok, got it all sorted. I just added that line to the .xinitrc and it seems to work fine (I think).

I'm not too up with the library part of skype (still learning) but at least now I can use the letters in messengers and emails. It's all good :-)
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Posted: July 17 2006,06:11 QUOTE

If you don't mind, could you paste what you have in ~/.xinitrc just in case others have this issue?
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